Nick Duerden
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars
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Nick Duerden's "Exit Stage Left" is a 2022 music book of the year, focusing on the lives of pop stars after they achieve fame. It is a candid, laugh-out-loud, and occasionally shocking look at the aftermath of pop stardom, featuring tales of drug addiction, bankruptcy, depression, and divorce. The book also showcases the resilience and determination of pop stars, who continue to strive and make music despite the challenges they face.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
A SUNDAY TIMES,GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH
GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY
FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022 PICK
Incredibly moving.
- Guardian
Entertaining.
- Telegraph
Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings into demi-gods. In writing a book about how they have to turn back into humans, Nick Duerden has done both us and them a service.
- David Hepworth
Funny, poignant and often inspirational.
- Mat Osman
The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame - the heedless pursuit of it; the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what's it like to actually achieve it, and what happens when fame abruptly passes, and shifts, as it does, onto someone else?
This is the point at which pop stars are at their most heroic, because they don't give up. They keep on striving, keep making music, and refuse simply to ebb away. Some sustain themselves on the nostalgia circuit, others continue to beaver away in the studio, no longer Abbey Road, perhaps, so much as the garden shed. But all of them, in their own individual ways, still dare to dream.
Exit Stage Left features tales of drug addiction, bankruptcy, depression and divorce, but also of optimism, a genuine love of the craft, humility and hope. This is a candid, laugh-out-loud and occasionally shocking look at what happens when the brightest stars fall back down to earth.
Exit Stage Left is the book I've long wanted to read about the PTSD-like after-effects of pop stardom - and Nick Duerden is the perfect writer for the job. The pop star's bittersweet lot is represented with flair and empathy.
- Pete Paphides, author of Broke.
Weight: 272g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472277787
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